We managed to score the very last co-codamol in our Boots today, and only because it had wedged itself weirdly, and I managed to point it out to the poor girl serving us.
Re. all the politics. I'm really regretting not sorting my citizenship and all that stuff out ages ago. Back in the day, I could have easily gone for the indefinite leave to remain and British citizenship. I didn't have anything against the idea. I wouldn't even have had to give up my birth-citizenship. It just never seemed like something I would need. I never imagined I would need this. In hindsight I can't believe how dumb I was. (Even back in university, when I did "European Studies" as a filler course, we were asked an identity question once, and I failed to appreciate the result that all of us international students saw ourself as "European", while all the natives saw themselves as "British" or a sub-group of that.) So right now I am stuck with being able to vote in general elections in my birth country (I read the headlines, but really I have no stakes in that, and feel like an outsider), but not here, where my vote would actually matter to my life. Sigh. That past is the past and you can't change it. I'm really hoping they won't change the current rule that you can apply for a citizenship after a year of Settled Status, though.